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Dorothy Edgington

Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy

Dorothy Edgington is a Senior Research Fellow. She was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics at Oxford, 2003-6, where she was also a professor from 1996-2001. The rest of her career has been at Birkbeck, after reading PPE and doing a B. Phil. in Philosophy at Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, was President of the Aristotelian Society 2007-8 and President of the Mind Association 2004-5. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions in Canada, United States, Mexico and Italy.

Research Activity

Dorothy works mainly in philosophical logic, particularly on conditionals, counterfactual reasoning, probabilistic reasoning and vagueness. She is currently involved in a project on Probabilities, Propensities and Conditionals at the Institute of Philosophy.